Monday, 21 January 2019

Fee Kaffee

Place Post 17Fee Kaffee

Where? In
Patterdale

Who Went There? Tab
and Josefa frequented it in Sunshower and
half the cast went there in Court in
Between and the two Counterpoint books

Fee Kaffee was
built at some time after the 1980s. For the past several years it has been
owned and run by Martina Bless, a handsome alpenfee mädchen in her thirties.
Martina has a round face and dimples and wears her luxuriant brown hair in a
milkmaid braid. She dresses for work in a dirndl and blouse.

Martina has a touch of the
sight which makes some of Fee Kaffee’spatrons nervous. Others go there
especially to pick up any insight Martina might be willing to share.

As
its name implies, Fee Kaffee specialises
in coffee. Martina serves kaffee schnapps
and gives her favoured fay customers a particularly good coffee. She won’t
say where it comes from. She has expressed regret that she doesn’t have a hob
baker, but she does serve some interesting cakes. A popular one is alpenkuchen, a confection of chocolate
cake covered with a shiny white coat to represent snow. Even fancier is alpentorte which Court Leopold passes on when eating a late supper.
One with the wafer layers and staggering
clouds of cream must be the alpentorte, but he wasn’t going to cut into that.
It was such an undisciplined cake. Cut a slice of that and it might prove
impossible to get his mouth around it.

Apart from the fancy cake, more homely fare
such as soup, sturdy ryebread and herb-speckled cheese can be ordered.

Martina is quite likely to conjure orders
and menus when she’s in a hurry, and she will also provide a glamour if she
thinks patrons need privacy.

The cafe has some open-air seating it the
pretty garden, which has room for a temporary stage. Martina lives in a cottage
behind it.